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ROBERT CLARKE & Co. have just ready a book for children, "Insect Lives; or, Born in Prison," by Julia P. Ballard, a well-known writer for young folks, which should interest a great many little people who are forever asking questions about the little things that buzz about their ears; and those purchasing for children mustn't forget "Carl and Gretchen's Christmas," which a competent authority has called the "prettiest, sweetest and best Christmas story" he ever read.

THOMAS Y. CROWELL has ready for holiday buyers a number of attractive books, chief among which are "Sparkles for Bright Eyes," a fully illustrated quarto, with contributions from Miss Alcott, Mrs. Thaxter, and other popular writers, which is divided into two thinner volumes under the bright titles of "Meadow Blossoms" and "Water Cresses ;" and "Aunt Ethel's Picture Gallery," another attractive quarto, which is also divided into "Clover-top Story Book" and "Aunt Callie's Sunset Stories." Among pretty quartos at half a dollar or thereabouts are "Borrowed Trouble," "A Pair of Pussy's Cousins," Carrie's Picnic," and "How Nellie Saved the Money," "Barley's Christmas Dream," and "Our Little Newsboy."

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DODD, MEAD & Co. present one of the most Christmasy books of the year in "Around the Yule Log," a story for boys and girls, embodying many pleasant shorter stories and like miscellany, by Richard Markham, full of illustrations and brilliant in binding-one of the most taking books of the year, of which further details and specimen illustrations are given elsewhere. The Eggleston series about "Famous American Indians," to which are added this season" Pocahontas" and "Brandt and Red Jacket," are vividly interesting to boys, and there are not a few older people who will not be unwilling to have a good time over these true stories of Indian adventure. The author of the Elsie books has a new volume in the Mildred series for older girls, under the title of "Mildred at Roselands." A fine large book is a collection of standard fairy tales, "Open Sesame," gorgeous with fullpage illustrations in gold and colors. "Sunshine and Rain" is another pretty book, with pictures at every opening. "A

Book for Every Little Jack and Jill," and "Go ing a-Maying," are other books in quarto, full and running over with pictures. And the new juveniles in sets, the Pinafore series, for very little people; the Cloth of Gold, May Flower, Holiday and Sunset series, are exceedingly attractive of their kind.

E. P. DUTTON & Co., whose Pussy Tiptoe series has been one of the hits for several seasons back, have just ready a sixth volume, by the same popular author, Mrs. D. P. Sanford, under the title of "The Captain's Children"-in which the little people who are the heroes and heroines, are taken a voyage to Brazil, and of course, have a great deal to tell their hosts of friends about that country and the voyage

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From Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co.'s Juvenile Books.

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literature." From previous volumes we have "The Original Chatterbox Album of Animals," collecting the admirable full-page pictures of animal life contributed by Harrison Weir and others, and "The Original Chatterbox Picture Gallery," a selection of the best cuts of all sorts, printed on heavy toned paper, with a verse to each picture, besides the volumes for 1878 ("The Original Chatterbox Stories") and for 1877, at a still cheaper price than the current volume. "Little Folks' Songs," original nursery rhymes by Mrs. Richard Grant White, with illustrations from Addie Ledyard and others, is reprinted in new style, while for reading by the little folks themselves is "Baby's Pleasure-Book," a large quarto in large type and with lots of pictures. "Our Baby's Primer" is a smaller book of like pleasant purpose.

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A new series of half-dollar books of stories, The Little Tyrant," "Little May and her Lost A," "Lilly's Day," and "Little Jack's Adventures," are all fully illustrated. We notice also new editions of Babyhood," a splendid big book; of "Baby's Rhyme-Book" and "StoryBook," edited by Laura E. Richards; of "Chimes for Childhood," a general selection of child poetry; of "Pleasant Pages and Bible Pictures," the former by Robert Bloomfield and the latter by Dalziel; and of the Darley edition of Moore's immortal "Visit of St. Nicholas."

FORDS, HOWARD & HULBERT have this year still another new book, "The Merry-GoRound," by Rossiter W. Raymond, containing more stories for the little people by that charming writer of modern fairy lore, whose previous books are also worthy of remembrance

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